Archaeological Wave (Bielefeld)

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Office building with exhibition windows on Archäo Welle.

Archäo Welle is the name of an excavation project in the old town of Bielefeld . As part of this project, the development of an inner-city district on the Welle was archaeologically researched and then made into a museum.

location

The exhibition is located on the streets Am Bach and Welle and thus in Bielefeld's old town in the Mitte district . After the end of the archaeological excavations, around 150 m 2 were preserved as museum space.

Working group Archäo Welle

Until the Second World War, the area between the streets Am Bach , Welle and Neustädter Straße was relatively dense and built up in small parts. Mainly there were buildings that, like Haus Müller, were built in the 16th century. After the destruction of World War II, a parking lot was built there, which was to give way to a new building for shops and offices from 1999. The Archäo Welle project was founded as part of this project . It was a working group that was supported by the city of Bielefeld, the employment office at that time, the Society for Employment and Vocational Promotion mbH, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Möllmann family from Bielefeld. The excavation was led by the former Westphalian Museum of Archeology (Office for Monument Preservation, Bielefeld branch). The finds were then examined by scientists from the University of Tübingen .


Todays situation

The finds were largely preserved thanks to extensive security measures during the excavation of the 16 m deep excavation and the new building. It is possible to see them through the glass fronts on the shaft and on the brook . You can see the remains of the medieval buildings around 2.5 m below street level. Among other things, parts of the city wall, a fountain and wall remains of the former houses can be seen. In addition, on the surrounding streets and sidewalks, the boundaries of the old buildings before the destruction in 1944 were made recognizable by means of metal signs, lines and a special asphalting.

gallery

  • Glass facade with single showcase

  • Markings in the course of the road

  • Markings in the course of the road

See also

literature

  • Dieter Lammers: The finds from the excavation Bielefeld wave. Studies on the reality of life in a medieval and early modern small town. Dissertation. Tübingen 2005.

Web links

Commons : Archaeo Wave  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brigitte Brand: Museum en passant - Bielefeld city history 24 / 24h . In: Communications of the Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times . No. 10 , 2010, p. 221-228 .
  2. ↑ About us. Retrieved May 4, 2014 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 8.7 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 52.8 ″  E